| Show THE UTAH EXHIBIT and economically managed did the awarding committee blunder editor in your leading editorial of bast entitled not deliberative yon make statements are liable to leave a false impression upon the minds ol 01 your readers and do those who had charge of the exhibit at aba worlds columbian exposition an in which I 1 hope and believe yon did not inland you say it is kaawa that a number of prominent utah cami liei spent a rood deal of their time at chicago last bummer and it baa been quietly charged that their expenses came out of this fifty thousand doly lars that quite a number of prominent utah families spent part of the sum mar in chicago is I 1 beli aye true that their expanses came out of the fifty thousand dollars is not true in any sense of the word thoda who were in charge of the utah building and ex hibit received their transportation aad board and lodging at aba expense of the Commie ion and there were some bal arieal paid none ate with the work perfo imad for meyeral prior to the boen ing of the eppu jitian I 1 devoted much of my time to the cihi bit for utah and was constantly at the utah building at abs tbs fair from may to the clofie of the exposition and worked without compensation ot berthan transportation and my board while engaged atthe Building Being almost constantly thara excepting when I 1 was out for my meals 1 am prepared to say that the report that any families or parts of families from utah or any where alaa were entertained at the building build inz or at the expense of the appropriation ia entirely without foundation as in fact there was a rule ot the commission prohibiting the entertainment by those in charge of their families and friends which was strictly complied from first to last and to my certain know adge the utmost economy was practiced in all matters from the tim our exhibit was until ic waa returned I 1 understand that acme of our people returning from the fair haya given reports of the utah exhibit at chii I 1 am not at all as comparatively few took J any int arett wh alever in making a abow of our ouram and when at the fair fag i slight intelligent investigation nit we did have there those w expect ed to find all of the exhibits H g ulith building were of course disa they were distributed in carious buildings purposely consid for the different kinds of exhibit api A aa A f i was evidently cradit able is proven by the number of awards gian to ivr territory and there is certainly a mistake either with our friends who would depreciate our exhibit or with the awarding committed commit tea which I 1 will leave to the general public to decide BULLOCK paavo CITY feb 1894 |
